Kathleen A. Carlson

Associate

    Kathleen is a member of the Casualty Department. She has experience litigating automobile liability, uninsured/underinsured motorist and general liability matters.

    Prior to joining the firm, Kathleen was an associate with a state wide insurance defense firm in Jacksonville, where she focused her practice on the areas of automobile liability, uninsured/underinsured motorist, coverage matters, and bad faith litigation. Kathleen also served two years as judicial law clerk for the Honorable James A. Edwards of the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach, Florida

    A double Gator, Kathleen completed both her undergraduate and legal studies at the University of Florida, where she proudly served as an executive editor of the Florida Law Review.

    Before attending law school, she worked as a freelance sports photographer for many of the major collegiate athletic programs in and around the state of Florida.

    Published Works

    New FL Pilot Program for Remote Trials, Marshall Dennehey Special Alert, May, 2020

    Note, Social Media and the Workplace: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Privacy Settings and the NLRB, 66 Fla. L. Rev. 479 (2014)

    Comment, Ryan v. Gonzales and the Potential Elimination of the Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Post Conviction Failsafe, 65 Fla. L. Rev. 1435 (2013)

    Admissions
    Florida
    2014
    U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida
    2018
    U.S. District Court Northern District of Florida
    2018
    Education
    University of Florida Levin College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2014)
    University of Florida (B.A., cum laude, 2007)
    Honors & awards
    The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch©, Insurance Law
    2024-2025
    The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®, Personal Injury Litigation
    2025
    Year joined
    2020